^Peterson, Donald R (June 2004), "Science, Scientism, and Professional Responsibility", Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice11 (2): 196–210, "The term scientism is ordinarily used with pejorative intent."

^Hakfoort, C (1992), "Science deified: Wilhelm Osstwald's energeticist world-view and the history of scientism", Annals of Science49 (6): 525–44, "The term 'scientism' is sometimes used in a pejorative sense"

^Bannister, Robert C (1991), Sociology and Scientism: The American Quest for Objectivity, 1880–1940, The University of North Carolina Press, hlm. 8, "Scientism... a term of abuse since Friedrich Hayek first popularized it in the 1940s.".

^"Scientism does not eliminate the will but decides that since the results of science are valid for everyone, this will must be something shared, not individual. In practice, the individual must submit to the collectivity, which "knows" better than he does." Tzvetan Todorov. The Imperfect Garden: the legacy of humanism. Princeton University Press. 2001. Pg. 20

^Ryder, Martin (2005). "Scientism". In Mitcham, Carl. Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (ed. 3rd). Detroit: MacMillan Reference Books. "Today the term is used with pejorative intent to dismiss substantive arguments that appeal to scientific authority in contexts where science might not apply. This over commitment to science can be seen in epistemological distortions and abuse of public policy."

^abBlackburn, S (2005). The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Oxford paperbacks. Oxford University Press. hlm. 331–32. ISBN978-0-19-861013-7. LCCN2006271895. "Scientism: Pejorative term for the belief that the methods of natural science, or the categories and things recognized in natural science, form the only proper elements in any philosophical or other inquiry."

^Peterson 2003, hlm. 753: ‘the best way to understand the charge of scientism is as a kind of logical fallacy involving improper usage of science or scientific claims’